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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (13672)	5/17/2001 2:52:20 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I'm hundreds of posts behind here You haven't missed anything. Here's some good news for a change. nytimes.com <snip>About 90 percent of school systems nationwide have what they call zero- tolerance policies for violence or threats, according to the United States Department of Education. Few have enforced them as strictly as Manalapan, but more and more are learning the lesson that Manalapan has. In February, the American Bar Association passed a resolution opposing zero-tolerance policies, saying they have "redefined students as criminals." Among the harsher cases, they cited a Louisiana boy who was suspended for two days after warning his peers in the lunch line not to eat all the potatoes or "I'm gonna get you!" The school board in West Windsor, N.J., let up on its zero- tolerance policy last fall after a furor over the suspension of a 9-year-old boy who had threatened to shoot a wad of paper with a rubber band. <snip>